Well, that was interesting...
San Diego St, Creighton, FAU, Kansas St, Miami and Texas. All of a sudden, we are staring down a Final Four that will include three of those teams! This has been truly fascinating.
So, what is my favorite storyline going into today's games? It is that Texas may be a basketball school! That's right, Friday Night Lights might as well be a story about a sweaty gymnasium just north of downtown Austin.
Thank goodness for that I guess, because the football team is currently a mess. Given the money and resources the football program there has, it is sort of amazing that they have been no better than a middling program for more than a decade. This story is reminiscent of the 1989 University of Michigan basketball team that lost it's head coach right before the NCAA tournament and was led to a national championship by interim coach Steve Fischer. Granted, Bill Frieder didn't get charged with a felony in 1989, but you see my point. And Michigan football at the time? A middling program with a couple of bright spots through the 1980's and early 90's.
I am a little hungover this morning so I don't really have a point here. You should trust this though. We are looking at a arc with the University of Texas that is familiar, and I am positive that the boosters there are not as happy as you think. Schools like Oklahoma and Michigan and Texas and Alabama (?) don't want to be basketball schools, they just want to be good at basketball.
I am still winless in this damn pool, and I am starting to get angry. For that, I am not even going to congratulate anyone today. Here are the f$#king results.
I too, am angry at this pool!
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